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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Dried Up OPI Black Shatter!

Moin Moin,

Before I start with the actual post theme I wanted to say that the OPI Black Shatter has been one of the very first OPI polishes I bought and was also one of the factors that made me like OPI from the very beginning since it probably was one of the first brands that brought out a shatter/crackle polish.

I felt like doing this post already times ago but well it never happened and now that I got a new Black Shatter it just had to be done. (which I got btw by my friend, the beautiful and nice, Lina from Lina's Beauty Diary - check her out!)

Back to the post theme! So here you can see the actual disaster. On the left side is a brand new shatter and on the right side you can see my dried up shatter.

How did that happen?

Well, I probably didn't close the cab tightly...Back at the time when I got this polish I used it very often and then I didn't use it at all for a few months, so I only noticed the state of it after monthswhen it was too late to do something about it.And the moral of the story… well now I always check my nail polish bottle twice since they are not so cheap I prefer taking better care of the ones I owe ;)

As you can see the formula dried completely inside and there are only a few lumps and dried black formula left on the inside of the bottle glas. You can see through the bottle, the glas is clear. The brush also got very lumpy so that once you open the bottle again and take it out it's difficult to put the brush in again.

A lot of people suggest dropping a bit of nail polish remover into your
bottle, and although that does work often, its actually really bad for the
polish (normal polish) and since shatter/crackle polish is different than a regular polish because it has a different formula than regular type of polish, doing something like putting nail polish remover in it could be really
bad for the polish.

If you really love that kind of polish I think it would be better to
buy another bottle than to try and salvage a bottle of totally dried up polish.
Shaking the bottle might help, but if its really dry it won't do a thing.

It's a common thing that's happening with it. You can also use some nail polish thinner. This is what OPI
recommends to restore your shatter polish. Just please do NOT add
nail polish remover to it. REMOVER AND THINNER ARE NOT THE SAME THING!!! And remover can destroy your polish as shown here: